Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino

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How to Arrive

El Museo se encuentra ubicado en pleno centro de Santiago, en la esquina de las calles Bandera y Compañía, a una cuadra de la Plaza de Armas.

Tickets

Chileans and resident foreigners: $1,000 Foreigners: $8,000 Chilean students and resident foreigners: $500 Foreign students: $4,000

Guided Visit

El Museo cuenta con un servicio de guías, sin costo adicional, para los establecimientos educacionales.

Information for Teachers

Invitamos especialmente a coordinarse con alguno de nuestros guías para programar una visita o actividades de motivación y seguimiento que aprovechen de la mejor forma la experiencia de visitarnos.

Audioguides

Download recordings of the Permanent Exhibition display texts in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish here. These audioguides are in mp3 format and are arranged by cultural area, following the same order as our exhibit galleries.   Descargue desde esta página audioguías en castellano, inglés, francés y portugués con los textos de las vitrinas de la […]

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  • Permanent exhibition at the Art Pre-Columbian America
  • Permanent Exhibition Chile before Chile
  • Temporary Exhibitions
  • Exposiciones fuera del Museo
  • Traveling Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition at the Art Pre-Columbian America

This site focuses on the art of the peoples of the Americas, grouped according to Cultural Areas.

Permanent Exhibition Chile before Chile

The exhibition ranges from the oldest groups of fishermen to the current native peoples.

Temporary Exhibitions

These smaller sites are dedicated to the temporary exhibits that the Museum has mounted each year.

Exposiciones fuera del Museo

Exhibitions performed and produced by the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art.

Traveling Exhibitions

This site explores the exhibitions prepared by the Museum and sent on tour across Chile and around the globe.

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  • Mesoamerica
  • Intermediate
  • Caribbean
  • Amazonian
  • Central Andes
  • Southern Andes

Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is the area that covers the present-day countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and part of Nicaragua.

Intermediate

The Intermediate Area includes the territories of Colombia and Ecuador.

Caribbean

The Caribbean Area extends across the Caribbean Sea and the Antilles.

Amazonian

The Amazonas Area envelops the Amazon jungle.

Central Andes

The Central Andes Area covers Peru and Bolivia.

Southern Andes

The Southern Andes Area extends Argentina.

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  • Pre-Columbian Cultures
  • Chile’s Indigenous Peoples

Pre-Columbian Cultures

These indigenous groups inhabited the Americas before the arrival of Europeans. They are often identified by the style of their artwork, the territory they inhabited and the period(s) during which they lived.

Chile’s Indigenous Peoples

These human groups are the direct descendants of certain pre-Columbian cultures and retain some of their social and cultural elements, distinguishing them from the rest of the population. Most of these groups also have their own language.

  • Kids’ Zone
  • American Influences
  • Audiovisual Archive
  • Iconography
  • ZIM Precolombino
  • Musical Instruments
  • Pre-Columbian technologies
  • Rock Art

Kids’ Zone

This site contains hundreds of pages of information, drawings, animated clips, comics, audio clips, games and videos made especially for kids about the cultures and prehistory of the Americas.

Audiovisual Archive

The Museum's Audiovisual Archive, created in 1989, includes an Ethnographic Video Archive and an Indigenous Music Archive. The Audiovisual Archive is housed in the library.

American Influences

The colonization of the Americas revolutionized the Old World of Europe in countless ways.

Iconography

The fifty pieces from the Museum’s collection that are found in this section display basic iconography from several distinct cultural areas of the Americas.

ZIM Precolombino

Zona interactiva. Juega, explora y aprende con la cultura precolombina.

Musical Instruments

In this section, you can know more about 20 musical instruments in the Museum´s collection through photographs, sound clips, diagrams and explanations.

Pre-Columbian technologies

The need create precision instruments and tools drove precolombians to explore a vast array of manufacturing and engineering technologies.

Rock Art

Rock art refers to the marks and figures applied by humans onto natural stone.

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  • New acquisitions
  • PDF
  • Museum’s Journal
  • Buscar en la Biblioteca

New acquisitions

Check the news adcquisitions.

PDF

Since it was founded thirty years ago, the Museum has produced a wide range of publications on pre-Columbian art and cultures.

Museum’s Journal

The Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino is a biannual magazine, founded in March 1985. Currently, it is the only specialized periodical of its kind in Latin America.

Buscar en la Biblioteca

Revise en línea nuestro catálogo de libros, separatas, videos y música: https://precolombino.goalexandria.com/

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  • Our Institution
  • Curaduría
  • Conservation
  • Noticias
  • Museum Store
  • Friends of the Museum
  • Contact
  • Related links

Our Institution

During the 1970s, Sergio Larraín García-Moreno became increasingly aware of the importance of his collection and of the urgent need to establish an ongoing institution for its permanent and overall care.

Curaduría

Los arqueólogos del área de curaduría son los responsables de crear los contenidos de las exposiciones del museo. Además han desarrollado diversas líneas de trabajo centradas en el legado artístico de los pueblos originarios de América.

Conservation

The laboratory is responsible for the registry, conservation and restoration of the collections comprising the Museum"s patrimony.

Noticias

Conoce las noticias y actividades del Museo Precolombino.

Museum Store

The Museum Store features a wide range of articles: Reproductions of pre-Columbian pieces exhibited in the Museum, indigenous crafts, books, videos, CDs, clothing, tote bags, postcards, and more.

Friends of the Museum

Receive our weekly schedule of events and news of outreach activities offered by the Museum.

Contacto

Contact

Bandera 361, Santiago, Chile (56 2) 928 1522

Enlaces relacionados

Related links

Acceder a sitios web de otros museos y publicaciones referidas al tema precolombino.

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  • Permanent Exhibition Chile before Chile
  • Temporary Exhibitions
  • Exposiciones fuera del Museo
  • Traveling Exhibitions
Exhibitions > Temporary Exhibitions > Chile under the Inka Empire – 2009 > (Español) El Inka en las regiones

Chile under the Inka Empire – 2009

  • The Inka Empire
    • Unkus y Tokapu
  • The conquest of Chile
    • An architecture at the service of the empire
    • Pottery
    • Duality
    • Sanctuaries
    • (Español) Imperio
  • (Español) El Inka en las regiones
    • Southern Frontier
    • Gold and Silver
    • Stone Gifts
    • Paccha
    • Rock art
    • Gold in Marga Marga
    • Inka headdresses
    • Inka textiles
    • Quipus
    • Using a quipu
  • Continuity
    • Epílogo
  • Photo Gallery
  • Inca shop

(Español) El Inka en las regiones

 

Southern Frontier

Escudillas decoradas con rombos. Cerámica. Aconcagua (Estilo Centro-Sur). Cerro Tren Tren,Doííihue. MRR

Gold and Silver

Tupus (alfileres) de plata y oro. Inka, norte de Chile. MASMA, MA y MCHAP.Pulsera y aretes de oro. Inka, norte de Chile. MCHAP y MRA.

Stone Gifts

Paccha

Paccha: Recipiente en forma de cabeza humana. Cerámica .Diaguita-lnka . Estadio Fiscal,Ovalle.ML

Rock art

Grabados con motivos de “escudos”, vinculados al arte inkaico. Río Choapa, Norte Chico.

Gold in Marga Marga

Al centro, crisol trípode para fundición. Cerámica. Diaguita-Inka. Valle del Elqui. MALS

Inka headdresses

Tocados Inkas

Inka textiles

Unku: Túnica listada de colores naturales. Fibra de camélido. Arica-lnka ,Región de Arica y Parinacota. MCHAP.

Quipus

Using a quipu

 
 
 

Information to visitors

Location
Bandera 361
Santiago, Chile

Desk
+56 2 2928 1500

Contact
informaciones@museoprecolombino.cl

Con el apoyo de:

Municipalidad de SantiagoMinisterio de Cultura

Medio asociado:

Marca ChileCanal 13 Cable